I knew there was danger in styling gel.

You see, I grew up in the 1980s. And while I knew people who delved into styling gel, I resisted. And after watching this week’s episode of “Flight of the Conchords”, I now know why.

Murray decides that, after a disastrous, one-man-in-the-crowd (and that man snuck out during the first song) gig, Bret and Jemaine aren’t cool enough. And he breaks out the blue canister of hair gel.

The boys are hooked right away, slathering it on as if it were Pom-ade and they were Gail and Evel in Raising Arizona.

At first it works almost too well, turning them into a cool new-wave electronica act and becoming the centerpiece of Prime Minister Brian’s idea of New Zealand Town. (Which he sees as being between Chinatown and Little Italy.)

But disaster strikes when they run out. They can’t — simply can’t — be seen in public un-gelled, and after Murray fails to fetch them more, the show produces one of two good FOTC scenes. They lambaste Mel, who snuck into their apartment — not for having a key made for their place, but for not having gel.

“I don’t even KNOW you guys anymore!” Mel screams as she leaves.

Now, it doesn’t really turn into a “very special episode” of the Conchords with Jemaine screaming “I’m so excited! I’m so excited! I’m so scared!” (That would be “Saved by the Bell”.) Instead, Murray talks them out of their “gel addiction”, they play with massive bed-head, it’s a disaster at New Zealand Town.

However, blink and you miss the other great scene — Arj Barker’s Dave running the information booth, giving completely made-up facts about New Zealand.

“What language do you speak?”

“Oh, we make it up as we go along. That’s what makes us so hard to understand.”